BlackBerry Losing Traction in Developing Markets

Share of the Indonesian Market Falls to 14% in 2013 from 43% in 2011

By

Will Connors in Toronto and

I Made Sentana in Jakarta

Feb. 21, 2014 1:34 p.m. ET

In December, a month after taking over as chief executive of BlackBerry Ltd., John Chen cast aside worries that the company's next smartphone, to be built by Foxconn Technology Group, wouldn't be successful in its target market of Indonesia.

"[Foxconn] might come back to us and say we can't sell any of these BlackBerry 10 phones," Mr. Chen said. "But it won't happen that way. BlackBerry is huge in Indonesia."